He was believed to have been operating for the past six years.

The suspect, who posed as an immigration senior deputy assistant director from the department’s headquarters here, was arrested at 12.15pm Wednesday in a car.

He was wearing an immigration uniform with the proper rank in front of a fast food food restaurant at Sunway City while waiting for customers.

Immigration director-general Mustafar Ali said the suspect, 45, used the false name of “James Tay”.

Most of his victims were foreign workers from Bangladesh and Vietnam who had fled from their employers.

“The victims only realised the PLKS given by James Tay were fake when they were arrested by the department,” he said at a press conference here today.

Mustafar said an inspection of the suspect’s car found five Immigration Department authority cards and nine special passes believed to be fake.

An inspection at the suspect’s house in Puchong Jaya found nine Immigration Department uniforms, uniform accessories, foreign workers’ application documents, seven immigration authority cards and 13 passes.